Maaike Roet, Chris Kwiatkowski, Yannick Bakker
Co-Founders
Maaike Roet LL.M. | Co-Founder & CEO
The Connector & Business Leader
Maaike spent 15 years as a practicing attorney before founding House of Lawyers, the leading platform connecting independent senior legal professionals to corporates across the Netherlands. She knows what General Counsels need, because she's lived it: the pressure to deliver more with less, the challenge of finding the right legal expertise at the right time and the reality that legal excellence alone isn't enough anymore. Now she helps legal departments navigate transformation by connecting traditional legal expertise with future-focused innovation.
Chris Kwiatkowski M.Sc. | Co-Founder & Head of AI Strategy
The Transformation Expert
Chris has trained 5,000+ professionals and guided 70+ companies across Europe through complete AI transformations. As founder of Ahead of the Wave AI, he has built a reputation for one thing: translating AI hype into systems that actually work. From boardroom strategy sessions to company-wide rollouts, he helps organisations move beyond pilot projects to enterprise-wide impact. Chris makes the complex practical and the abstract measurable.
Yannick Bakker LL.M. | Co-Founder & Legal Architect
The Visionary & Designer
Yannick has spent 12+ years in legal practice asking one question: how should this actually work? As commercial Legal Counsel and through experience in marketing, he has seen firsthand where legal becomes a bottleneck and where it can be a competitive advantage. Now, as Legal Solutions Architect, he redesigns legal operations from the ground up, combining design thinking with AI to create systems that lawyers actually want to use. The result: legal departments that move faster without cutting corners.
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